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You can not conquer me—if you hack me in pieces, the bits of flesh and bone will reunite and haunt you to your doom! I see the hand of Pelias in this, but I defy ye both! I am Tsotha, son of—"
Conan rushed, sword gleaming, eyes slits of wariness.
The Scarlet Citadel
by Robert E. Howard
First published in Weird Tales, January 1933
Chapter 4
"The sword that slays the king cuts the cords of the empire."
—Aquilonian Proverb
THE STREETS OF TAMAR swarmed with howling mobs, shaking fists and rusty pikes.
For one dazed insane instant Steve believed wildly that they were being attacked by re-embodied warriors of a vanished age; then the spiteful crack of a bullet past his ear and the acrid smell of powder told him that their foes were material enough.
The Thing on the Roof by Robert E. Howard
First published in Weird Tales, February 1932
The Shadow of the Vulture by Robert E. Howard — First published in The Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934
Chapter 6
Hawk of the Hills by Robert E. Howard — First published in Top-Notch magazine, June 1935
CHAPTER 4
Isle of Pirate’s Doom by Robert E. Howard — Written in 1928, it was never published in Howard's lifetime